CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – More than two years after Chief Michael Kochis started talking about it, CPD is ready to go this coming week with its first-ever gun buyback event. It’s Friday, June 20 at Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church from 10AM-to-2PM, and there are gift cards available valued with the type of firearm returned. Kochis started talking about doing an event like this back in March 2023, a month after he first came to Charlottesville. City Council passed an enabling ordinance in July of that year, but it’s taken this long to do the work to put it together,
“I did very little other than talk about it, but my staff – specifically Sgt. Eric Thomas, Lt. Greg Wade and their whole staff – has done all the work. All the heavy lifting,” Kochis said…